California Lottery Sales

Every time I see the individual with food stamps buying lottery tickets it makes me ill. The money that is won by the individual who paid for his lottery ticket with our money from his welfare check should have the money given back to the general fund to be used by the people who furnished the money to buy the ticket. JAMES S. DEVINE Santa Monica

California Lottery sales reached $1.5-billion, just seven months after the first ticket was sold. Lottery Director M. Mark Michalko said this puts the games "right on track for meeting the $1.7-billion sales estimate that we projected in January for the end of this fiscal year." He noted that the lottery has raised $510 million for California education institutions.

California Lottery sales reached $1.5-billion, just seven months after the first ticket was sold. Lottery Director M. Mark Michalko said this puts the games "right on track for meeting the $1.7-billion sales estimate that we projected in January for the end of this fiscal year." He noted that the lottery has raised $510 million for California education institutions.

Concerning Assemblyman Bane's attempt to take away lottery rights from welfare recipients: As a former welfare recipient, my small allotment (as did the others) went completely for rent. The soup kitchens provided the food, and any luxury like buying lottery tickets (there weren't any at that time) and eating at a fast-food chain would come from panhandling. I do not believe in taking away the opportunity and fun of playing the lottery from welfare recipients; and therefore putting another nail in the coffin of that part of society that the politician does not want to recognize and help.

Almost eight weeks past the deadline, Gov. George Deukmejian today appointed the five-member California State Lottery Commission to run the games approved by voters last November. Deukmejian said he will meet with the commissioners for the first time later today. "I plan to immediately discuss the selection of the lottery commission's executive director with the nominees," he said. "It shouldn't take very long. We've already gotten the names of some very good prospects."

A new state law legalizes a practice Californians have committed in unwitting lawlessness for years--scattering cremated ashes over the countryside. Still, certain venues are off-limits, among them lakes and streams. This makes the meticulous art of map-reading especially important at South Lake Tahoe: While California law prohibits scattering ashes in the lake, Nevadans are allowed to scatter ashes over any public waterway.

The tinted windows at Cafe Miss Cutie in Garden Grove are a giveaway that this isn't your ordinary coffeehouse. At about 20 tables, men play cards and smoke, tossing cigarette butts onto the wood floor seconds before lighting up again. High-pitched pop music pulsates as waitresses dressed in sexy lingerie — and sometimes less — deliver the brew the customers crave: Vietnamese coffee, strong and sweet, in a small glass topped with whipped cream. The cafe is one of about 20 in this Orange County city, which includes part of Little Saigon, one of the largest Vietnamese American enclaves in the U.S. It also is among those raided in March by more than 150 federal and local law enforcement officials, exposing an underbelly of what police say includes nudity, gambling and prostitution.

Almost eight weeks past the deadline, Gov. George Deukmejian today appointed the five-member California State Lottery Commission to run the games approved by voters last November. Deukmejian said he will meet with the commissioners for the first time later today. "I plan to immediately discuss the selection of the lottery commission's executive director with the nominees," he said. "It shouldn't take very long. We've already gotten the names of some very good prospects."